Brainstorming

Brainstorming Ideas

Have listening days for different communities

• • A line of police listen

  • A line of Muslims listen

  • A line of Jews listen

  • Interfaith Listening

  • etc

Brainstorming Ideas To Sort

( ) Create a design project:

How might be design a listening, empathy and dialogue based response to the violence in Berkeley?

( ) Need a Brochure

3 fold explaining why, what, how we are doing

Hand it out.

( ) A 'Let's Listen' booklet.

( ) Various Print Materiel

( ) Need Media Strategy

( ) New T-shirts with EmpathyTent.com

on it.

( ) Popup Mediation. In a team of 2, find someone on the left and the right that would like to take part in a couples empathy circle. Carry portable chairs. Sit down 3 chairs,

* left

* right

* empathic mediator.

The two people dialogue starting with them talking to the mediator. They use empathic listening. The second mediator keeps time and supports. Once they are familiar with the process, they talk with each other directly using empathic listening.

( )Take Signs that Say Free Hugs.

Create a Free Hugs Team.

( ) Water for protesters,

• • and Cups. It's thirsty work

( ) Better signs on both sides that say Empathy Tent.

Sign on Roof for helicopters.

( ) Do Pre Event Empathic Listening with organizers on both sides.

Offer to hold pre and post event empathic listening with organizers and participants.

( ) Transform Cortisol with Oxytocin.

Conflict, stress, Anxiety, fear generate

( ) Have signs on the Empathy Tent

We are here to listen. etc

( ) Offer Empathy Circles

( ) What about having a doctor there that can offer first aid?

Pepper spray/tear gas in eyes

( ) Signs: Make some signs

• "Try Empathy"

• We offer: *Free Empathy * Listening * Dialogue * Hugs * Empathy Circles * Circle Facilitation Training * Conflict Mediation * Mediation Training * De-escalation * Shared Action * Empathic Design * Plus

( ) Pre-empathy circle with Pro-Anti leaders

• • Would be good. - do listening about what is important.

  • Need to find out who the leaders are.

( ) More Chairs Stencil the backs with a message.

( ) Resources

• • We have 2 empathy tents

  • Need transportation for tents

Need chairs Ever listener needs a chair for them-self and for the speaker. Sample setup from Sidewalk Talk listening.

( ) farmer's market as a staging ground.

• • Get permission to offer the empathy tent there.

  • Who can do that.

Organizations to check with?

• • Sidewalk talk

  • Bay NVC

  • Berkeley Empathy Decal

  • Seeds Mediation

  • Quakers

  • UU

  • Indivisible Berkeley

    • Nonviolence training participants